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Phone Harness: let your agent use your phone

Phone Harness launched an open-source tool that lets AI agents tap, type and scroll through apps on iPhones and Androids using the phone's interface, with no jailbreak, API or app install required, reading the screen via vision OCR or the accessibility tree. The company also opened a Phone Harness Cloud beta offering hosted iPhones and Androids or a user's own device, with new accounts starting at $5 of credit for Android emulators at 5¢ per minute and real iPhones sold as a flat subscription. Pricing runs from a $0/month Basic pay-as-you-go tier and a $20/month Plus tier with 1,000 included phone-minutes (4¢ per minute after) to Cloud iPhone at $64/month billed annually ($80 monthly, or $80/$100 with eSIM) and a Scale tier of dedicated real phones.

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Phone Harness: let your agent use your phone
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Open source / Phone control

Let your AI agent tap, type, and scroll through the apps on your iPhone or Android.

Tap. Type. Scroll. #

Your agent uses the phone interface, just like you do. No jailbreak, no API, no app to install.

Read the screen. #

Vision OCR or the phone’s accessibility tree for eyes. Real input for hands.

Bring your own agent. #

iPhone through iPhone Mirroring, even in the background. Android over adb.

Phone Harness Cloud · Open beta

Give your agent its own phone. #

Hosted iPhones and Androids, or your own. Same harness, same skill, from anywhere.

New accounts start with $5 of credit for Android emulators, 5¢ a minute. Real iPhones are a flat subscription. See pricing. #

Stealth Real hardware. Apps see a person. #

Real phone numbers SMS and 2FA handled. #

Persistent state Logins survive between runs. #

Unlimited devices One phone or a hundred, at once. #

Bring your own phone Hook up your phone and drive it from anywhere.

Pricing #

Basic

Cloud Android, pay as you go

$0/mo

5¢ per phone-minute

Sign in or create an account

  • $5 of credit to start
  • Keeps apps and logins between sessions
  • Live viewer
  • Agent API
  • MCP server

Plus

Cloud Android for regular use

$20/mo

1,000 phone-minutes included

Get Plus Everything in Basic, plus:

  • 4¢ per phone-minute after the 1,000
  • Included minutes reset every month

Cloud iPhone

Your agent’s own iPhone

Save 20%

$64Regular price $80/mo

With eSIM: $80 Regular price $100/mo

Billed annually

$80/mo

With eSIM: $100/mo

Book a demo Everything in Basic, plus:

  • A real device, not an emulator
  • A real phone number, with eSIM
  • Not billed by the minute

Scale

Dedicated real phones, iPhone or Android, kept on and reserved for you around the clock.

  • Multiple profiles per phone
  • Concurrency set to your workload
  • Proxies of your choice
  • Invoicing and volume pricing
[Contact us](https://cal.com/shawnpana/phone-harness-demo)

Or email [support@phone-harness.com](mailto:support@phone-harness.com?subject=Phone%20Harness%20custom%20plan).
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